9 Must-Read Mafia Romances
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I remember my first mafia romance… J.T. Geissinger’s Ruthless Creatures sent me headfirst into my mafia romance era. I’ve read my fair share of mafia romances since then and curated 9 must-read ones.
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Table of Contents
What is Mafia Romance?
My Favorite Mafia Romance Books!
More Book Lists
Author Guides
Series Guides
What is Mafia Romance?
Ever wondered what happens when love meets danger? Enter the exciting world of mafia romance! Mafia romances have it all: ruggedly handsome mob bosses, fierce and independent FMCs, and romance so spicy it ignites amidst the chaos of organized crime. From clandestine meetings in dimly lit alleys to heart-pounding shootouts, mafia romance novels are packed with suspense, passion, and a hefty dose of adrenaline.
My Favorite Mafia Romance Books!
Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger
Queens & Monsters, Book One
Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger is for readers who enjoy:
- Alpha Males
- BDSM
- Dark Romance
- Dirty Talk
- Mafia Romance
Booklists that feature Ruthless Creatures
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Book Description
Five years ago, my fiancé disappeared. He left me with a wedding dress I’d never wear. Left me with the kind of scars that can’t be healed. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. All that remained were my broken heart and a million unanswered questions.
Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town.
Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Though I know he’s hiding something, I’m drawn to him like a moth to flame.
Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, helpless to resist.
But then I discover he’s been sent to collect on an unpaid debt from my missing fiancé…
And that debt is me.
“You like me, huh?”
Ruthless Creatures
“I’d impale whole armies on my sword if you asked me to.”
Hooked by Emily McIntire
Never After, Book One
Hooked by Emily McIntire is for readers who enjoy:
- Contemporary Romance
- Dark Romance
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Mafia Romance
Booklists that feature Hooked
A Guide to the Never After Series
Hooked Playlist
Book Description
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.
“You want to watch the world burn?”
Hooked
“Let me guess, you’ll set it on fire?” I ask.
He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me settling into my bones.
“No, darling. I’ll hand you the match, and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.”
Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight
Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight is for readers who enjoy:
- BDSM
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Mafia Romance
- Why Choose
Booklists that feature Den of Vipers
Den of Vipers Playlist
Book Description
Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel—The Vipers.
They run this town and everyone in it. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses.
Yes, sold me.
They own me now.
I’m theirs in every sense of the word. But I’ve never been meek and compliant. These men, they look at me with longing. Their scarred, blood-stained hands holding me tight. They want everything I am, everything I have to give, and won’t stop until they get just that. They can own my body, but they will never have my heart.
The Vipers? I’m going to make them regret the day they took me.
This girl? She bites too.
He steps closer, and this time I don’t retreat. “I lied,” he croaks. “I will follow you always. I’ll hunt you across this world. Even if you hate me, us, for it. I will drag you back kicking and screaming. Hit me, slap me, fight me. I don’t care, the pain is worth it to have you with me, darling. I love you too much to let you go. I’m too fucking selfish to let the best thing to ever happen to us walk away. You’re ours.”
Den of Vipers
The Predator by RuNyx
Dark Verse, Book One
Predator by RuNyx is for readers who enjoy:
- Alpha Males
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Mafia Romance
- Slow Burns
- Suspense
Predator Playlist
Book Description
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the field of death?
In the dark underbelly of the mob, Tristan Caine has been an anomaly. As the only non-blooded member in the high circle of the Tenebrae Outfit, he is an enigma to all – his skills unparalleled, his morality questionable, and his motives unknown. He is lethal and he knows it.
As does Morana Vitalio, the genius extraordinaire daughter of the rival family. What Caine does with weapons, Morana does with computers. When a twenty-year old mystery resurfaces, Morana infiltrates Caine’s house, intent on killing him, unaware of a tie that binds them together. Hate, heat, and history clash together with unexpected sparks.
But something bigger, something worse is happening in their world. And despite their animosity, only they can fight it down.
“Don’t you know not to run away from predators, sweetheart? We like the hunt.”
The Predator
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Devil of Dublin by B.B. Easton
Devil of Dublin by B.B. Easton is for readers who enjoy:
- Antiheroes
- Friends-to-Lovers
- Mafia Romance
- Second Chances
- Suspense
Devil of Dublin Playlist
Book Description
I can’t remember anymore if my grandfather’s eyes were blue or green, but I’ll never forget the way they wrinkled at the corners when he laughed at one of his own jokes. Or the way they sparkled with mischief when he told me tales about the magical creatures that dwelled in the forest behind his humble Irish sheep farm—shy fairies who liked to eat tea biscuits, cruel witches who liked to eat children, a moody lake spirit with a taste for expensive gifts.
As a child, I believed every fantastical word. But when he warned me about the mute boy who also lurked in those woods, the one the priest had declared to be the spawn of Satan himself, I refused to listen. Kellen wasn’t evil. He was kind, and beautiful, and special, and hurting. He was my friend. And with every summer I spent stolen away with him in those enchanted woods, he grew to become so much more.
But when I return to Glenshire as an adult, grieving and engaged to someone else, all those legends quickly morph into nightmares.
My grandfather had been right about everything, especially the boy.
If only I had listened.
“I want—all I’ve ever wanted—is for you to look at me the way you’re lookin’ at me now.”
Devil of Dublin
God of Fury by Rina Kent
Legacy of Gods, Book Five
God of Fury by Rina Kent is for readers who enjoy:
- Dark Romance
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Mafia Romance
- MM Romance
God of Fury Playlist
Book Description
I’m not attracted to men.
Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov.
A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster.
An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path.
And just like that, he has his sights set on me.
A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy’s twin brother.
He doesn’t seem to care that the odds are stacked against us.
In fact, he sets out to break my steel-like control and blur my limits.
I thought my biggest worry was being noticed by Nikolai.
I’m learning the hard way that being wanted by this beautiful nightmare is much worse.
“Remember when you told me to tell you something in Russian?” “You said I was cute.” “No. I said ‘I can’t live without you,’ and we take that quite literally in Russia.”
God of Fury
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti is for readers who enjoy:
- Arranged Marriage
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Mafia Romance
- Why Choose
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell Playlist
Book Description
I was sold to my enemies.
The Butchers of the London mob who run an empire built on sin and greed. The stories I’ve heard about the way they rule their underworld are enough to make my heart race. But those rumours have nothing on the truth.
Danny, Church, Frank. The three men who own me now. The head of this so-called kingdom and the two savages who enforce his wrath.
They made a peace deal with my family which came at a cost – me. A mafia princess gifted to them as a bride.
So here I am in my white dress with a gun to my head and a knife in my garter.
I won’t become their plaything. I won’t become their prize.
The war between our families might have ended with this union, but I’m starting a battle of my own. And I’ll trade my body for a chance to leave this wedded bliss behind.
The only question left is whether they’ll be the ones bleeding out, or if I’ll end up with my heart torn from my chest and fed to these hungry British dogs.
So this guy might have been as hot as the inner rings of hell, but as he wasn’t pink, rubber and built in with twenty five different pulsation settings, he wasn’t my type.
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell
Ruining Dahlia by C.R. Jane
Mafia Wars, Book Three
Ruining Dahlia by C.R. Jane is for readers who enjoy:
- Arranged Marriage
- BDSM
- Enemies-to-Lover
- Mafia Romance
- Why Choose
Booklists that feature Ruining Dahlia
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Ruining Dahlia Playlist
Book Description
I was sold to my enemies. And not just my enemies. I was sold to monsters.
I should know all about how to survive monsters though, I come from a family of them.
We aren’t Butchers in name only, and surely the Rossi family can’t be as bad as the devil that’s been destroying me since I was eight years old.
New York City, the powerful head of the Cosa Nostra, is my new home. Where Lucian, Raphael, and Gabriel Rossi now think they own me.
The thing they don’t realize is that I’m more than what I seem.
A dahlia has always bloomed best in the light, and even though everything about this place and these men is shrouded in darkness, I’m determined to thrive…to win.
They play a game for keeps, a game where the only rule is that there are no rules.
They want to ruin me. But what disturbs me most is that I just might like it.
It’s me against them, and only time will tell If I’ll be the winner or be destroyed in these cruel and merciless Mafia Wars.
Gabriel didn’t pout. He was perpetually happy, like a golden retriever. Unlike a golden retriever, he could change into a monster when needed, but even when doing his work, he was usually so fucking happy that it made me sick.
Ruining Dahlia
Ruin My Life by Luna Pierce
Sinners and Angels, Book Four
Ruin My Life by Luna Pierce is for readers who enjoy:
- Contemporary Romance
- Dark Romance
- Friends-to-Lovers
- Mafia Romance
- Why Choose
Book Description
Desperate to save my dying mother, I sacrifice myself to a repulsive crime boss.
The cost? I must produce him an heir.
I accepted my terrible fate until I met them. Three very different, alluring men.
Silver, the brutal silver fox, who thrives on solving problems, and helped me get rid of a body.
Alec, the intelligent golden retriever, who will do anything for me, even get his hands dirty.
And Miller, the mysterious billionaire stalker with scars and tattoos, whose haunted past mirrors my own.
With one month remaining until my life truly is no longer my own, I realize I must choose between my life or my mother’s.
I struggle with trust and acceptance as I’m caught in a dance of danger and forbidden desire.
But with every glimmer of hope, my cruel reality forces me to ask the inevitable question…
Will love be my redemption, or will it ruin my life?
“Cora isn’t mine. She belongs to herself. And that’s how I want it to stay. I want to be a part of her life, even if she feels like my whole entire world.”
Ruin My Life
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